NE Man Jailed for Sexual Assault of Two Minors

A New Enterprise man has been jailed after police charged him with multiple counts of sexually abusing and threatening two minors over a 17-year span.

Stephen John Beegle, 45, faces more than 100 felony charges of rape, statutory sexual assault, involuntary deviate sexual intercourse, statutory sexual assault and indecent assault after the victim's mother contacted state police and reported that Beegle had been sexually assaulting her now 21-year-old daughter since she was 4.

According to police, the victim's mother said her son approached her on April 24 and told her that Beegle had been s...